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주어진 글 다음에 이어질 글의 순서로 가장 적절한 것은?
Nowadays the clock dominates our lives so much that it is hard to imagine life without it. Before industrialization, most societies used the sun or the moon to tell the time.
(A) For the growing network of railroads, the fact that there were no time standards was a disaster. Often, stations just some miles apart set their clocks at different times. There was a lot of confusion for travelers.
(B) When mechanical clocks first appeared, they were immediately popular. It was fashionable to have a clock or a watch. People invented the expression "of the clock" or "o'clock" to refer to this new way to tell the time.
(C) These clocks were decorative, but not always useful. This was because towns, provinces, and even neighboring villages had different ways to tell the time. Travelers had to reset their clocks repeatedly when they moved from one place to another. In the United States, there were about 70 different time zones in the 1860s.

(A)－(B)－(C)

(B)－(A)－(C)

(B)－(C)－(A)

(C)－(A)－(B)

글의 순서로 가장 적절한 것은 (B)－(C)－(A)이다.
해와 달로 시간을 알던 시대 다음에 (B)의 "When mechanical clocks first appeared"(기계식 시계의 등장)가 이어지고, (C)의 "These clocks"가 (B)의 시계를 받아 지역마다 시간이 달라 불편했다고 설명한다.
(A)는 (C)의 "different time zones" 문제를 이어받아 "no time standards"(표준시 부재)가 철도망에 재앙이었다고 마무리한다.
(A)를 맨 앞에 두는 배열은 시간 기준 부재라는 문제가 소개되기 전에 그 결과부터 나오게 된다.
(C)를 맨 앞에 두는 배열은 "These clocks"가 가리킬 대상이 없다.